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[commandercranky]

I hate this piracy bullshit.

Pirates are not cool.

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[never_the_less]

agreed. as someone else on my page said, i do not want your cutesy internet holidays!

[bklyndispatch]

word. there was a goddamn feature on the thing on NPR this morning. Pirates are not cool, period and being featured on NPR makes them double not cool.

[grrrlishgrin]

i just talked about this a few days ago: about how i don't know what there is to glorify about a bunch of criminals. what's so much cooler about them than any other kind of violent robbers?

anyway, hi, i'm marion. i am secretly, not-so-secretly reading your journal because i like it.

[bklyndispatch]

I have a suspicion, you can trace the punk rock I wanna be a pirate thing to a moment in the late ninties when Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey) wrote a book called pirate utopias that was real popular with the dreadlock dog on a rope set...

[freshwater_pr0n]

Aaaah - I've been pondering its origins, and that makes sense.

I also blame Dave Eggers.

[commandercranky]

Hi. You are welcome to read it.

Sprichst du Deutsch? Ich hab gewohnt im Goslar, in die naehe von Hannover, im 1991. Aber mein Deutsch ist jetzt sehr schlecht - Ich hab viel vergassen.

I'm all for glorifying some criminals. But christ, pirates?! They are little more than low-grade capitalists.

[pekingspring]

Everyone knows ninjas are better anyway

[red_mouth_ghost]

Sadly I work at a place where someone showed up in pantaloons and a sash yesterday. I was all excited until somebody pointed out that he was trying to look the pirate.

It would be cooler if he came in with a harpoon and some whale oil.

[commandercranky]

Or a rickety-ass boat and a machine gun. And commuted from the coast of Somalia.

[red_mouth_ghost]

honestly it was the saddest display I've seen in a while. I thought he just rolled out of bed and was still in his kung-fu pajamas. Not saying there are anything wrong with kung-fu pajamas, just don't wear them to work, please!

[red_mouth_ghost]

should have expected it though, he's the same guy who shows up every year on halloween as a paunchy "Darth Maul". Once I saw him interviewing someone for a job dressed that way - something in me was just dying inside for the poor candidate, it's got to be intimidating to know that at any moment you could be disemboweled by a guy brandishing a lightsaber should you fail to impress.